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Brutal Heat

Proxima Competition 2023 / Brutální vedro / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic 2023

Synopsis

A massive segment of the Sun has broken off and is heading for Earth, whose surface is slowly heating up to an unbearable level. A strange mood pervades a debilitated world: anything could happen, virtually anywhere, without warning. Even in a sleepy town, where an 18-year-old lad gets stranded on his way to the family cottage. The fact is that no-one knows at what temperature the human character starts to melt... While other filmmakers might adopt a catastrophic premise to tell a story of panic and man’s animal fear, the fresh, creative voice of Albert Hospodářský looks elsewhere. In extreme situations, who runs wild and who remains docile? And can a solar eruption engender harmony as well?

Martin Horyna

About the film

75 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Albert Hospodářský / Screenplay Albert Hospodářský / Dir. of Photography Tomáš Uhlík / Music Jan Tomáš / Sound Václav Kopelec / Editor Ondřej Nuslauer / Art Director Matěj Sýkora / Producer Ondřej Lukeš, Lukáš Kokeš / Production nutprodukce / Coproduction Punkchart Films / Cast Vincent Hospodářský, Zdeňka Petrová, Milan Mikulčík, Václav Kopelec, Ivana Uhlířová, Tereza Dočkalová, Marta Bačíková, Anežka Kalivodová, Marta Vítů, Petr Motl / Contact nutprodukce / Distributor Artcam Films

About the director

Albert Hospodářský (1996). Selected filmography: Nekyia: Inner Portrait of the Poet Hradecky (Nekyia: Vnitřní portrét básníka Hradeckého, 2019, short doc.), Brutal Heat (Brutální vedro, 2023).